1848 coal mine accident need help reading cause of death please

[bradelkington]

Hi there just recieve death cert of my 3x great grandad Robert harper who died at heathfield colliery in west bromwich on 9th february 1848. I make out scorched and burnt by an explosion of sulpher in a coal pit but what does it say after that ??

[BridgetM]

Scorched and burned by an explosion of sulphur in a coal pit Manslaughter against John Meck

[bradelkington]

oh yeah of cause i see it now youve said it, i struggle reading this old writing. Very interested with this accident ive done abit of research on it, theres a old article about what happened when i searched on google, it was at heathfield colleiry at west bromwich but i cant find where its located on old maps and i would like to see a old photo of it ?? thanks for working out what it says for me

[millymcb]

Hi

I expect you have seen this

http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs%5CNewspaperCuttings%5C1848%5CFebruary%201848.pdf

There is also a report in The Times on 11th Feb if you would like to see it you can pm me

Milly

[Redroger]

Yes, I can see manslaughter too. Pity they don't reinstitute such verdicts nowadays, it might give Network Rail food for thought!

[Bilge]

www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/database/result/14746.html

There should also be some old maps of the mine locations within the data base.

www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/wm/index.html

[bradelkington]

thanks for the replys yes i looked at those articles very very interesting i printed them out and put them in my port folio type family album ! I had a feeling he died in a coal mining accident before i recieved the cert as in the 1841 census he was a miner and in 1851 his wife was a widow he was only 30 years old when he died such a shame thanks for the help guys much appriciated

[Skoosh]

John Meek.

[KAllardyce]

If you know the date and the name of a person who died in a coal-mining  accident (in scotland), there is a website http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/332.html that tells you all about it, and the newspaper records